Word: armored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign late last month, Iran's armed forces recaptured some 850 sq. mi. of territory in Khuzistan, all but decimating the Iraqi Fourth Army. Although the Iraqis had expected the operation, they were nevertheless caught off guard. Brigadier General Khatab Omar Najim, commander of the 60th Iraqi Armor Brigade and now an Iranian prisoner of war, told a group of Western correspondents that on the second day of the offensive, his front lines were resisting a moderate assault when suddenly his headquarters in the rear came under attack. "My entire staff was captured," he said. Iranian military officials claim...
...women of all economic and social backgrounds, men and women who desperately need job training, families that deserve and desire the right to send their children to college; in fact, anyone and everyone, other than those who have been fortunate enough to insulate themselves in a corporate suit of armor...
...warning: the Iraqis were about to attack Tang-e-Chazzabeh, a narrow mountain pass straddling the frontier. Two dozen Iranian crews manning field guns and Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers were awaiting the signal from their commanding officer. Sure enough, an Iranian forward observer spotted the columns of Iraqi armor and infantry on the move. He called "Now!" into his walkie-talkie. The commanding officer yelled "Fire!" The guns roared and the missiles blasted off toward the attacking Iraqi units...
Love it or leave it, war is culture at an elemental toolmaking level. Indeed, one can browse through this book as if it were an unimaginably well-stocked hardware store. Something in Chobham, the latest composite armor? Your enemy will probably have it too, so better pick up a "high explosive squash head" (HESH), which flattens against a tank before it explodes, sending out a shock wave that breaks up machinery and men. The list goes on; arrays of missiles, electronic and chemical nasties sweep over the reader in waves of gadget lust...
Monday morning, Oct. 15, some 2,000 tanks were joined in the Sinai in one of the biggest armor battles in history. Once outside their antiaircraft missile screen, the Egyptian tanks were vulnerable to Israeli air power; at least 250 were destroyed. It was a reversal of the Israeli setback of the week before. Now the Israelis, already advancing in Syria, would begin to move forcefully on the southern front as well...